On Wednesday the top contender saw Chael Sonnen get a title fight and “The Ultimate Fighter 17″ coaching slot with light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones, and Henderson openly wondered if he should focus more on trash-talk than exciting fights.

Earlier today, he followed up that message and said he has nothing personal against Sonnen but that his title shot “degrades” the sport.

“I will always [have] love for Chael and don’t blame him for saying yes to a big opportunity,” Henderson, one of Sonnen’s occasional Team Quest training partners, tweeted.

However, after a knee injury cost Henderson a scheduled light-heavyweight shot with Jones this past month at UFC 151, Henderson watched as middleweight Vitor Belfort failed to dethrone Jones at UFC 152. Now, Sonnen, another recent middleweight title challenger, is moving into an immediate title shot. Jones, meanwhile, sits and waits.

“… Giving him that fight [right] now degrades the sport of MMA,” Henderson wrote.

The comments come a day after Henderson’s other tweet that followed the initial Jones-Sonnen announcement.

“I guess I should just quit training to win fights and to be exciting for the fans and just go to s— talking school,” the 42-year-old wrote.

In a media conference call on Wednesday, UFC President Dana White reiterated a likely plan for Henderson (29-8 MMA, 6-2 UFC), who’s still on the mend from his knee injury, and ex-champ Lyoto Machida (18-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC) to fight sometime in early 2013. The winner of that fight – or a UFC on FOX 5 co-headliner between Alexander Gustafsson (14-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) and Maurício “Shogun” Rua (21-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) – is likely to get the shot at the Jones-Sonnen victor.

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